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Making parents : the ontological choreography of reproductive technologies / Charis Thompson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thompson, Charis.
- Series:
- Inside technology.
- Inside technology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human reproductive technology--United States--History.
- Human reproductive technology.
- Human reproductive technology--Social aspects--United States.
- Human reproductive technology--Philosophy.
- Reproductive Techniques, Assisted--United States.
- Infertility--psychology--United States.
- Infertility--therapy--United States.
- Social Environment--United States.
- Human reproductive technology--History--United States.
- Genital Diseases, Male.
- Reproductive Techniques.
- Humanism.
- Delivery of Health Care.
- Psychology, Social.
- Sociology.
- Genital Diseases, Female.
- Ethics.
- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms.
- Investigative Techniques.
- Male Urogenital Diseases.
- Social Sciences.
- Patient Care Management.
- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation.
- Female Urogenital Diseases.
- Therapeutics.
- Psychology.
- Disease.
- Humanities.
- Philosophy.
- Female Urogenital Diseases and Pregnancy Complications.
- Health Services Administration.
- Social Environment.
- Infertility.
- Feminism.
- Health Services Accessibility.
- Family.
- Reproductive Techniques, Assisted.
- Embryo Disposition.
- Medical Subjects:
- Reproductive Techniques, Assisted--United States.
- Infertility--psychology--United States.
- Infertility--therapy--United States.
- Social Environment--United States.
- Genital Diseases, Male.
- Reproductive Techniques.
- Humanism.
- Delivery of Health Care.
- Psychology, Social.
- Sociology.
- Genital Diseases, Female.
- Ethics.
- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms.
- Investigative Techniques.
- Male Urogenital Diseases.
- Social Sciences.
- Patient Care Management.
- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation.
- Female Urogenital Diseases.
- Therapeutics.
- Psychology.
- Disease.
- Humanities.
- Philosophy.
- Female Urogenital Diseases and Pregnancy Complications.
- Health Services Administration.
- Social Environment.
- Infertility.
- Feminism.
- Health Services Accessibility.
- Family.
- Reproductive Techniques, Assisted.
- Embryo Disposition.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 360 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Mit Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Assisted reproductive technology (ART) makes babies and parents at once. Drawing on science and technology studies, feminist theory, and historical and ethnographic analyses of ART clinics, Charis Thompson explores the intertwining of biological reproduction with the personal, political, and technological meanings of reproduction. She analyzes the "ontological choreography" at ART clinics - the dynamics by which technical, scientific, kinship, gender, emotional, legal, political, financial, and other matters are coordinated - using ethnographic data to address questions usually treated in the abstract.
- Reproductive technologies, says Thompson, are part of the increasing tendency to turn social problems into biomedical questions and can be used as a lens to see the resulting changes in the relations between science and society."--BOOK JACKET.
- Contents:
- Introduction : making parents : selective pronatalism, ontological choreography, a biomedical mode of reproduction, methods, reading this book, and where I stand
- I. Disciplinary stakes
- 1. Science and society : some varieties of science and technology studies
- 2. Fertile ground : feminists theorize reproductive technologies
- II. Ontological choreography
- 3. Techniques of normalization : (re)producing the ART clinic
- 4. Is man to father as woman is to mother? : masculinity, gender performativity, and social (dis)order
- 5. Strategic naturalizing : kinship, race, and ethnicity
- 6. Agency through objectification : subjectivity and technology
- III. Economies
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 0-262-28491-X
- 1-4237-3004-6
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